Travers Smith has advised its long-standing client Micro Focus International plc ("Micro Focus"), the global enterprise software company, on its proposed $US 8.8 billion merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's ("HPE") software business segment ("HPE Software").
Ashurst is advising J.P. Morgan Cazenove ("JPMC") on the merger between Micro Focus International plc ("Micro Focus") and Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software business segment ("HPE Software"). JPMC is acting as lead financial adviser and sole sponsor to Micro Focus in relation to the transaction, which is a reverse takeover of Micro Focus for the purposes of the UK Listing Rules.
With a team led by Düsseldorf-based partners Michael Schmittmann and Dr. Martin Imhof, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised M7 Group, Luxemburg, on reorganizing its business in Germany. The advice focused on the merger of the German operating company with a Luxemburg-based company of M7 Group.
[Cologne, 2016-09-01] GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB provided publicly traded, Hamburg-based SendR SE with exhaustive legal advice in connection with its merger with Norway’s Phonofile AS, the largest digital provider in northern Europe, and also helped implement this cross-border transaction. The transaction was carried out on the basis of the decision of the shareholders of SendR SE to carry out a capital increase in kind with no preemptive rights in exchange for shares in Phonofile AS plus a cash component.
We assisted Metso Minerals Oy in a cross-border merger in which a Belgian company in the Metso Group merged with Finnish Metso Minerals Oy.
We have advised Tournus Expansion on their merger with CED Fabrications.
Tournus Expansion, which was founded in 1910 and is based in Burgundy, manufactures stainless steel catering equipment for the catering industry. Backed by private equity investors MML Capital, UI Gestion and BPI, the company generated annual revenues of more than €45 million last year.
VISCHER advises OpenLimit Holding AG (O5H.DE), the German listed IT security specialist with registered seat in Baar ZG, on its contemplated merger with WISeKey International Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN), the SIX listed cybersecurity company with registered seat in Zug, with OpenLimit being the transferring and WISeKey being the surviving entity. In addition to the envisaged merger, WISeKey provides interim financing to OpenLimit through subscription of a convertible loan note issued by OpenLimit.
Altium and GCA Savvian have entered into a definitive merger agreement to create a leading independent international investment bank. Completion is subject to regulatory approval.
Bär & Karrer is acting as Swiss legal advisor to Altium in this transaction. The Bär & Karrer team includes Christoph Neeracher and Philippe Seiler (both M&A) as well as Susanne Schreiber, Daniel Bader, Cyrill Diefenbacher and Markus Mühlemann (all Tax).
MEDIAN Group, majority owned by Dutch private equity company Waterland Private Equity, announced today that it will merge with AHG Allgemeine Hospitalgesellschaft AG, Düsseldorf, in the course of 2017. Two days ago the parties signed a corresponding contract. The transaction is still subject to the approval of the German antitrust authorities.
MEDIAN is a health care company with currently 78 rehabilitation centers, acute hospitals, and care and reintegration facilities at 45 locations. With about
On July 25, 2016, WISeKey International Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN) and OpenLimit Holding AG (O5H.DE) announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding a contemplated business combination in the form of a statutory merger under Swiss law, whereby OpenLimit would be merged with and into WISeKey, with WISeKey thus being the surviving entity. The entry into definitive agreements is subject to satisfactory reciprocal confirmatory due diligence, to be conducted over the next month, and other conditions as are customary.